Events

FIG Events

FIG organises international congresses, held every four years, and annual
working weeks, held in the intervening years. Congresses and Working Weeks
are hosted by FIG together with its local member association. The last
congresses were held in Brighton (UK) in 1998, in Washington, DC (USA) in
2002, in Munich, Germany in 2006, in Sydney, Australia, 11-16 April 2010 and
in Kuala Lumpur; Malaysia in June 2014. The next congress will be held in
Istanbul, Turkey, 6-11 May 2018

Congresses attract several thousand participants from all over the world and
are the most important events in the FIG calendar. The technical programme,
which marks the culmination of the 10 commissions’ four-year programme of
work, is complemented by a major international exhibition.

Working Weeks combine meetings of FIG’s administrative
bodies with technical seminars organised by the commissions and the host
member associations and as such provide the opportunity for commissions to
develop their work programmes and for FIG to network at a more regional
level. In the later years the Working Weeks have taken place in Abuja, Nigeria 6-10 May
2013, Sofia, Bulgaria in 2015 and Christchurch, New Zealand
2016. www.fig.net/fig2016. The next
Working Weeks will be held inHelsinki, Finland in 2017
www.fig.net/fig2017, Hanoi, Vietnam 2019
www.fig.net/fig2019 and
Amsterdam, the Netherlands 2020.

In addition to their involvement with FIG congresses and working
weeks, commissions and their working groups organise or co-sponsor a wide
range of seminars and workshops, usually in collaboration with member
associations or other international professional bodies.

International Federation of Surveyors, FIG, is a United Nations and World Bank recognized
non-governmental organization of national member associations
and covers the whole range of professional fields within the
global surveying community. It provides an international forum
for discussion and development aiming to promote professional
practice and standards.